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Shaming and Suppression of Female Sexuality THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CLINICAL SEXOLOGY SHAMING AND SUPPRESSION OF FEMALE SEXUALITY AN IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY, GENDER ROLES, FEMALE LIBERATION, AND LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SHAMING OF FEMALE SEXUALITY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CLINICAL SEXOLOGY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY INGRID D.THRALL ORLANDO FLORIDA ii Copyright © 2017 by Ingrid D. Thrall All Rights Reserved iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my committee members; Dr. Claudia Rieman, for her guidance and support, and most of all for inspiring and encouraging me to pursue my doctoral degree at The American Academy of Clinical Sexology; Dr. Julia Breur for her input and for encouraging me to enjoy the process; Dr. William Granzig for his ubiquitous reassurance, sharing of his vast knowledge, and challenging me to think outside the box. I would like to thank my husband Ed for his unwavering love and support of all my endeavors and always believing in me. I would like to thank my son Jonathan for his faith in me in my pursuit of my passion and for allowing me to inspire him to pursue his own journey in the field of Psychology. I would like to thank each and every woman who took the time to participate in the survey. Without these wonderful women this project would not have been possible. iv VITA Ingrid D. Thrall is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University where she earned a Master of Science degree in Mental Health Counseling Psychology. She is a member of AASECT. v ABSTRACT Shaming around female sexuality occurs in a societal, cultural and religious context. Girls and women are often shamed for their appearance and simply their perceived sexual activity. This study aims to explore the evolution of human sexuality and gender roles, examine the underlying reason for and prevalence of sexual shaming of women, long-term effects and the need for therapeutic intervention. Shaming of girls and women has been found to correlate with eating disorders, depression and sexual dysfunction. This research project aims to collect data from a variety of women from different age groups, cultural and religious backgrounds to produce a qualitative view of incidence, prevalence and correlation between shaming and adult female sexual dysfunction, body image and self esteem issues. vi CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……………………………………………………………....iii VITA…………………………………………………...…………………………………iv ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………………….…v CONTENTS…………………………………………………………………………….…vi INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………1 CHAPTER 1 HISTORY AND THEORIES ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY……………...……………………………………………………………….2 Sociological Essentialism Theory………………………….…………………………….2 Social Construction Theory……………………………………………………………....2 Evolutionary Theory……………………………………………………………………...3 Economic Theory………………………………………………………………………...6 CHAPTER 2 HISTORICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EXPRESSION OF FEMALE SEXUALITY…………………………….………...………………………………………8 Cultural Suppression……………………………………………………………………..8 Religious Suppression.………..…………………………….………………….………...9 Societal Suppression…………...…………………………………………….……….…16 CHAPTER 3 IDEOLOGIES INFLUENCING THE EXPRESSION OF FEMALE SEXUALITY..…………………………………………………………………....….……20 Objectification Theory………………………………………………………….……….20 Sexualization of Girls……………………………………………………………………24 Sexting……………………….…………………………………………………………..25 vii CHAPTER 4 SEXISM MISOGYNY AND CURRENT TRENDS……….….…………....27 Slut Shaming…………………………………………………………….…….........27 The Sexual Double Standard…………………………………………….…………28 Victim Blaming…………………………………………………………………….31 Just World Hypothesis…….……………………………………………………….31 Attribution Error…………………………………………………………………...32 Invulnerability Theory……………………………………………………………..32 Violence against Women…………………………………………………………..33 Sexual Assault……………………………………………………………………..33 Rape Culture……………………………………………………………………….34 Sexism……………………………………………………………………………..35 Misogyny……………………………………………………………………….….35 CHAPTER 5 THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT AND LIBERATION…………….……… 36 Sexual Liberation………………………..………………………………….……...36 Sexual Revolution………………………………………………………………….38 CHAPTER 6 THEORIES AND RESEARCH Sigmund Freud…………………………………………………………………….40 Masters & Johnson………………………………………………………………...42 Albert Kinsey………………………………………………………………………43 The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm………………………………………………….44 CHAPTER 7 THE HYPOTHESIS………………………………………………………...47 Development of the Hypothesis……………………………………………………47 Introduction to Survey…..…………………………………………………………48 viii The Survey…………………………………………………………………………49 CHAPTER 8 DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS……………………………………...53 The Results of the Survey………………………………………………………….53 CHAPTER 9 SHAME HEALING AND CONCLUSION.……………………..………....58 Sexual Shame……....………………………………………………………………58 REBT…………….…………………………………………………………………62 Self-Compassion Theory…………………………...………………………………63 Feminist Theory……………………………………………………………………65 Healing the Shame…………………………………………………………………67 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………….68 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………..70 Dissertation Approval………………………………………………………………79 1 INTRODUCTION Shaming around female sexuality occurs in a societal, cultural and religious context. Girls and young women are shamed for their appearance, sexual conduct or simply for their perceived sexual activity. Shaming of women can be in the form of criticism about the way they dress, behave or how they are perceived. Media, movies, TV, pop-culture, and even toys for girls encourage girls to be pretty and sexy, but at the same time girls are discouraged from being too sexy as this could make them perceived as promiscuous and make them the target of sexual assault (Graham McMinn 2007; Valenti 2007). Shaming can also be in the more passive aggressive forms, such as victim blaming of survivors of sexual assault. Shaming a woman for her sexuality is based on the assumption that a woman who has sex or likes sex is somehow bad. A longitudinal study tracking two cohorts of youth found that “as early as sixth grade, girls who have sex lose friends, while boys who have sex, gain friends” (Kraeger 2007, 143). Shaming and objectification of girls and women has been found to correlate with eating disorders, depression and sexual dysfunction (Moradi and Huang 2008). The purpose of this research project is to take an in depth look at the history, the development and evolution of gender roles and female sexuality. This project will review several theories on gender roles taking into account religious, cultural and societal factors. This dissertation also aims to gather data from a variety of women from different age groups, cultural, and religious backgrounds to explore prevalence and correlation between childhood and early adolescence sexual shaming and adult sexual dysfunction, depression, self-esteem, and body image issues. Ultimately this project seeks to identify a desire and need to heal the wounds of sexual shaming and hence a need for and the development of an intervention. 2 CHAPTER 1 HISTORY AND THEORIES ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. Jared Diamond Sociological Essentialism Theory When we look at the evolution of female sexuality over time from a historical viewpoint, we discover several perspectives that offer differing as well as opposing views on the development of human sexuality and gender roles. Two of the main theoretical perspectives have dominated the field of human sexuality in the recent decades. One of those perspectives is the evolutionary theory, which emphasizes a biological component that is the primary determining factor for sexual behavior. According to classical essentialism, certain concepts of human behavior, such as sexuality are believed to have certain attributes and properties that remain constant (DeLamater and Hyde 1998). Sociological essentialism is a theory that proposes that gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity are traits that are static and hence, do not change. Essentialism and evolutionary theory thus suggest that certain features or characteristics of human behavior are similar across all cultural and historical settings as biological factors mainly influence such characteristics (DeLamater and Hyde 1998). Social Constructionism Theory The social construction theory suggests that societal constructs are instrumental in shaping and determining human sexual behaviors. Social constructionism proposes that society 3 has a greater influence on sexuality and gender than do biology. Sexuality and gender may or may not be viewed equally in different cultures and societies but rather the concept of sexuality would be a conceptualization unique to that particular culture or society not necessarily shared by individuals outside of that society (Wood and Eagly 2002). Evolutionary Theory Sociobiology is a theory that suggests that human, as well as animal behavior can be best understood and explained partly based on the result of natural selection, which is one of the fundamental components of evolutionary theory. In his article “Biological Theories of Gender” Saul McLeod points out the concepts of how certain behaviors evolved based on their adaptability: As the evolutionary approach is a biological one, it suggests that our genes have coded aspects of human behavior because they were or are adaptive. A central claim of evolutionary psychology is that the brain (and therefore the mind) evolved to solve problems encountered by our hunter-gatherer ancestors during the upper Pleistocene period over 10,000
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